[GRLUG] lost+found

L. V. Lammert lvl at omnitec.net
Sun Dec 16 23:07:15 EST 2012


On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, Jeff DeFouw wrote:

> The fact that you have anything in lost+found means someone or something
> already ran fsck and repaired a damaged filesystem or forced it on a
> mounted filesystem.  Lost inodes should never happen on a journaling
> filesystem such as ext3/ext4 unless the kernel has bugs or the hardware
> is bad.
>

I have never actually any files in any lost+found directory since ext2
- there is nothing actually *in* lost+found, rather the size of the
directory is the indication of a problem.

	Thanks!

	Lee


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